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That's it, and in the remainder of the post, let's see what interesting patterns and visualisations we can make. Let's first look at the most flown routes:

We can also make a distinction in flight level

Start or landing

Departure or arrival

Above 7000 meters

There is a lot more information in the data, such as altitude, vertical speed and velocity

Vertical rate (red=descending, blue=ascending)



Mean Altitude (darker = lower flying aircraft)

Mean Altitude (darker = lower flying aircraft)

And because COVID-19 is here, let's plot the data of the past weeks. The slowdown of traffic can be easily seen

2020-03-09

2020-03-16

2020-03-23

2020-03-30

2020-04-06

I also went through the top 100 callsigns. Turns out there are many interesting aircraft to be found. Let's make it into a quiz: which pattern belongs to:

  • Helicopter flights (mostly offshore)
  • Aerial photography
  • Emergency care flights
  • Police helicopters
  • Military
  • Coastguard

Answers on the bottom

heli

luchtfoto

trauma

politie

military

kustwacht

Let's end with a colorization with a certain shade of blue. Can you guess what kind of flights they represent?







That's it, hope you liked it. Answers to the above: A = Helicopter flights (mostly offshore) B = Aerial photography C = Emergency care flights D = Police helicopters E = Military F = Coastguard

Here you can download larger scale visualisations.

Thanks to datashader and some wonderful tutorials.

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